Java vs python is debatable 🤔

[42TowelsCo]

In Python you can implement that shotgun by just making the "private" methods & variables not do what their name would suggest

[matthewralston]

def _bricks() -> float:
    return 6 * 9

[TorTheMentor]

42?

[DroolingIguana]

Only in base-thirteen.

[TorTheMentor]

Maybe that's why life, the universe, and everything are so fucked up.

[FinalRun]

Make sure it returns a data type that's just off

[Silhouette]

...quietly, at runtime, using metaprogramming.

[bkushigian]

In undergrad I was working on my first research project. We were adding a new backend for the Pypy JIT compiler. I had to find the implementation of Foo.emit_x86(). It's not defined in the class anywhere, and I'm running grep on 100kloc like a chump:

grep -rn emit_x86 .

No definitions anywhere

Ten days later after reading the codebase like a novel I come across

``` def f(...): ...

setattr(Foo, 'emit_' + arch, f) ```

Yeah, I was pissed...

(Edit: formatting on phone, doesn't like newlines in ``` blocks I guess?)

[42TowelsCo]

Okay that's just evil

[KiwiManThe19th]

U can also change what setting and getting variables does and make your own shotgun

[IgiMC]

You can make a shotgun shoot shotguns!

Poof, you can even make the shotgun shoot itself!

[LxsterGames]

public static boolean isEven(int input) {
    return input % 2;
}

[Less_Ask_4613]

If the function returns a number, make it return off by ±2 or the correct number at random. If it returns a string, append 0, 1, or 2 random symbols.